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TIL The FBI kept a file on Stanley Kubrick because Admiral Arleigh Burke accused Dr. Strangelove of being "detrimental to the Nation"

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xYgg TIL after a man shot 10 Amish girls then himself at their school, the Amish community raised money for the shooter’s family and attended his funeral
ADDwg TIL that a psychiatric study done on survivors of the WWII London bombings shows that while people that barely survived suffered shock and trauma, people farther away felt a "feeling of excitement with a flavor of invulnerability".
GAog1 TIL that Jackie Wilson always kissed the least attractive girl in the audience. He believed that by doing so, everyone would think they could have him and keep coming back to buy his records.
JyEl TIL that when researchers offered kids broccoli or a chocolate bar, four out of five picked the chocolate but when an Elmo sticker was placed on the broccoli, fifty percent chose the broccoli.
epnB4 TIL about Abul-Abbas. An elephant sent by the caliph Harun al-rashid ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi to the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne as a gift that symbolized the beginning of Abbasid-Carolingian relations. The elephant died in 810 just as charlemagne crossed the rhine.